Greetings Economists, On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
it is where all understanding of capitalist culture must begin.
Doyle; I have a different view of the cognitive work process or knowledge production. Your point is an artifact of one to many knowledge production processes in which emotion ties can't be realistically reproduced. Carroll; which helps explain why the invention of that institution is to be found in the first capitalist society (England), and its (marriage's) ideology was first worked out in the national poets (Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton) of that state. Modern marriage is the paradigm for all capitalist relations: i.e., what we see in it is two agents, (seemingly) existing prior to and autonomously of all social relations, coming from nowhere as it were, and by an act of will establishing a society where none existed before. Doyle; I think you refer to the process by which family ties which were oppressive to women as they still are, was supplanted by the gradual legalization of emotional connections so that emotion could regulated outside the home. Which in turn led to recognizing the many problems with marriage in terms of emotional satisfaction. The legality is such a horrid slow stupid system of regulation that we still are deeply oppressed by the impoverishment of emotion ties. But and this I think is the important reply to your case, Capitalist can manufacture social or emotion ties and moving ever closer. It's not the sundering of social ties to individualism, it's the supplanting of person to person emotion ties by automated means that is the threat to the community. In it women rise out of bondage to a much truer state of equality. The emotion work is a slave system. Doyle
